Ongwediva
A police officer stationed at Oshakati Police Station was arrested and is expected to appear in Oshakati Magistrate’s Court for allegedly aborting her pregnancy on Monday afternoon.
Her arrest follows after fellow police officers linked her to a bank deposit slip found in a plastic bag at a dumpsite in Ongwediva on Monday afternoon, where the remains of newly aborted foetus were found.
According to Oshana regional police commander Commissioner Rauha Amwele, a candidate constable was arrested at her house over the incident and shortly afterwards admitted that she had aborted the baby.
She confessed to police investigators that she aborted the seven-month baby boy after a certain medical doctor in Windhoek apparently prescribed and gave her some abortion pills.
The name of the doctor is known to New Era, but cannot yet be revealed because of ongoing investigations.
Amwele said Ongwediva municipal employees went to show the police the crime scene, where the police found a plastic bag smeared with blood and copies of a deposit slip with names and contact numbers linking the constable to the scene of the abortion.
“When the employees showed the police the place, the police started investigating until they got the police officer who committed the alleged crime,” explained Amwele.
She said the suspect is currently in hospital under police guard and is expected to appear in court as soon as she is discharged from hospital.
The crime came to light when people at the dumping site came across a suspicious looking towel soaked in blood. The municipal workers contacted the police, who then conducted an investigation leading to the police constable’s arrest.
New Era understands the mother of the suspect, who is also a police officer, had ascertained that her daughter was pregnant and had approached her for confirmation, but the daughter denied it. The suspect is a mother of two children.
“When the police went to her house they found that the uniform that she wore on Monday had blood on it. She was then taken in for questioning and was later arrested,” said an onlooker.
In an unrelated case, at Okuryungava near Monte Christo service station in Windhoek at 13h00 yesterday, a passerby detected dogs devouring a baby’s head and then alerted the police.
Not far from where the head was found in a riverbed, the police uncovered what is suspected to be the torso of the slain baby. The body of the infant had been burned, wrapped in a plastic bag and discarded in the riverbed.
The police are appealing to anyone with information in connection with the case of the murdered infant to come forward.